Nobel Prize is awarded for atomic-level studies of cell structure basic to life

A
telephone
ringing
before
daybreak
is
unlikely
to
appear
on
anyone’s
list
of
favorite
sounds,
but
for
Thomas
A.
Steitz,
Ph.D.,
it
may
now
rank
with
the
sweetest
music.In
the
early
morning
hours
of
October
7,
Steitz,
Sterling
Professor
of
Molecular
Biochemistry
and
Biophysics,
learned
in
a
call
from
Sweden
that
he
would
share
the
2009
Nobel
Prize
in
Chemistry
for
his
seminal
research
on
the
structure
of
the
ribosome,
a
cell
organelle
that
is
vital
to
protein
synthesis
and
to
the
action
of
many...

Out & About

August 25: The 99 members of the Class of 2013 set Harkness Auditorium alight with nervous excitement at this year’s WHITE COAT CEREMONY, in which new students receive physician’s jackets, formally marking their entrance into the medical profession.

August 25: The 99 members of the Class of 2013 set Harkness Auditorium alight with nervous excitement at this year’s WHITE COAT CEREMONY, in which new students receive physician’s jackets, formally marking their entrance into the medical profession.

August 25: The 99 members of the Class of 2013 set Harkness Auditorium alight with nervous excitement at this year’s WHITE COAT CEREMONY, in which new students receive physician’s jackets, formally marking their entrance into the medical profession.

A white coat is readied for its new owner by Thomas J. Lynch Jr., M.D., director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief at YNHH’s Smilow Cancer Hospital, who delivered this year’s keynote speech.

August 25: The 99 members of the Class of 2013 set Harkness Auditorium alight with nervous excitement at this year’s WHITE COAT CEREMONY, in which new students receive physician’s jackets, formally marking their entrance into the medical profession.

October 8: Leaders of Yale and University College London (UCL) and their associated hospitals were joined by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (right) to sign an agreement creating the YALE–UCL COLLABORATIVE ON BIOMEDICINE, a new partnership in biomedical research and clinical care. (From left) David Fish, M.D., professor of epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at UCL and managing director, UCL Partners; Malcolm Grant, CBE, L.L.D., president and provost of UCL; Yale President Richard C. Levin; and Yale-New Haven Hospital CEO Marna P. Borgstrom, M.P.H. Blair, founder of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, is teaching a “Faith and Globalization” seminar at Yale for the second year.

September 21: LATVIAN PRESIDENT Valdis Zatlers, M.D. (left), an orthopaedic surgeon who trained as a fellow at Yale in 1990–91, met with Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D., at the School of Medicine during a wide-ranging six-day trip to the United States. Zatlers spoke to Yale students in political science and international relations and to residents in orthopaedics. Zatlers received his fellowship training under the auspices of the Keggi Orthopaedic Foundation (KOF), an organization founded and led by Kistaps J. Keggi, M.D., clinical professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation. Founded in 1988, KOF has brought more than 250 health and education professionals from the former Soviet republics and Vietnam to the United States for education.

October 16: An INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM AT THE RAYMOND AND BEVERLY SACKLER INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES was held at Yale’s West Campus. The day-long event, which featured talks by internationally renowned scientists from diverse fields, celebrated both the gift by the Sacklers that helped establish the institute and the arrival of the first class of graduate students in the Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology. (From left) Martin Chalfie, Ph.D., chair and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein; Peter Salovey, Ph.D., Yale University provost, Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, and professor of epidemiology and public health; Beverly Sackler; Raymond R. Sackler, M.D.; and Lynne J. Regan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of chemistry, and director of the new Sackler Institute, which is dedicated to promoting research that bridges the gaps between traditional scientific fields.